[wsbizwsa]

I know there's a beard thread going on already, but this is something that is aggravating me lately. I have been trying my best to follow the sunnah and let my beard grow long. Unfortunately, my father keeps bugging me about trimming it (at first, he used to tell me to shave it, but alhamdulillah, he's given up now). And now because he sees certain imams and people with trimmed beards, he has even more ammunition, because if those people, who are better/more religious than me can have trimmed beards, why not me? No way I can possibly explain to him about madhahib/etc because unfortunately he's come under the modernist mentality a little bit and he wouldn't listen to me anyway ("you're just a kid, you think you know more than me?").

So those of you who are imams with trimmed beards, I am telling you- you're making it harder for the youth.